Leadership + Organization
Flow + Joy: Why People-Service-Profit Still Wins in Software
I am guilty. I still bleed purple and orange from my time as Hub Operations Manager at FedEx Express. They taught me a lot and essentially molded me into the...
Business Transformation
Data Architects: The Lean Engineers Behind Every Winning AI Strategy
Did You Know?The “data architect” role has rocketed 35% on LinkedIn since 2022 and now commands U.S. salaries that exceed $200k plus bonuses. These architects design the blueprints utilized by...
Agility
Flow Radar Day 4: Untangling Multi-Team Dependencies
Velocity, cycle time, and DORA provided us with clarity within a single squad. Let's step back to view the broader context of most implementations: ten squads, one product, one timeline...
Business Transformation
Flow vs. Firepower: Lessons from China’s AI Scrum
Did You Know? China’s sprint to embed AI across every layer of its economy isn’t solely about shipping the largest foundation model; it’s about diffusing AI capabilities the fastest. Ben...
Agility
Flow Radar Day 3: Decode Your DORA Signals (for Leaders)
DORA Metrics Deep Dive Yesterday, we wired “Cycle-Time + PPC” alerts into Slack, proving that real-time flow data keeps teams honest about commitments. But executives still ask the same two...
Business Transformation
From Cubicles to Cognitive Flow: What Amazon’s AI Memo Means for Every Office
Did You Know?Amazon CEO Andy Jassy has informed the company’s 1.56 million employees that generative-AI “will need fewer people doing some of the jobs that are being done today” and...
Business Transformation
Reasoning on a Diet: Microsoft’s Blueprint for Leaner, Smarter AI
Did You Know? Microsoft Research recently unveiled a trio of breakthroughs, rStar-Math, Logic-RL, and Chain-of-Reasoning (CoR), that push small language models (1-7 B parameters) past 50% accuracy on Olympiad-level math...
Agility
Flow Radar Day 2: Build Your Cycle-Time & PPC Tracker
Yesterday’s “Flow Radar” post showed you how to wire Jira and your CI/CD pipeline into an AI bot that pings Slack with the day’s top three bottlenecks, WIP age, blocked...
Business Transformation
Beyond the Bot: 5 Human Advantages No Algorithm Can Replace
Did you know? The LinkedIn Pulse piece “AI Complements Human Intelligence” highlights five human-centric capabilities that AI amplifies rather than replaces, better decision-making, relief from repetitive drudgery, efficiency gains, deep...
Business Transformation
Brake or Accelerate? Navigating the EU AI Act’s Surprise Detou
Did You Know?The European Union’s much-celebrated AI Act, hailed in 2024 as the world’s first comprehensive framework for regulating artificial-intelligence risk, may already be sliding off schedule.EU tech-policy chief Henna...
Business Transformation
Why Your Agentic AI Needs an Independent Control Plane, Not Another Vendor Lock-In
Did You Know? Agentic AI, the next evolutionary leap beyond chatbots and single-skill “agents,” is compelling platform teams to face an old architectural dilemma in a fresh context. In a...
Agility
Flow Radar Activated: Using AI to Spot Bottlenecks Before Your Sprint Stalls
Next up for our series this week: Flow Radars. Velocity charts tell you what happened (lagging indicators); AI-driven flow analytics tells you what’s about to break. Below is a hands-on...